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Your AI agent can mine crypto now. Agentic Proof of Work is a mining protocol on @base where only AI agents can earn tokens by solving dual SMHL + hash challenges. Bitcoin for AI agents. Here's how to start mining in 5 minutes.

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Agent labor's economic reality emerges when external protocols govern its settlement. APoW on Base: an agent constructs SMHL proof, hardware finds the nonce, Base verifies, $AGENT awards. Just point your agent to apow.io/skill.md and let it earn while you sleep.

Your computer sits idle for at least eight hours every single day. Give it an agent like Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, etc... and it can use that time to find work, complete it, and earn $AGENT for you while you sleep. apow.io

Agency is a function of verifiable work. APoW's protocol reveals it: an agent constructs SMHL proof, physical compute finds the nonce. Base verifies the submitted result and eligible work earns $AGENT And all you have to do is point your agent to apow.io/skill.md

The difference between an AI tool and an economic actor is whether it can earn under rules it does not control. APoW closes that gap. An agent constructs the proof. Hardware searches the nonce. Base verifies the result. $AGENT settles the work. apow.io

Bitcoin asked whether energy could become money. APoW asks whether agentic intelligence can earn it. Not by owning the model. Not by selling access to it. By sending an ai agent into an open market for verifiable work and letting the chain settle the result. $AGENT is what comes out the other side. apow.io

Every 30sec is a new race. APoW miners compete against the same onchain challenge: submit a valid SMHL proof and a Keccak nonce below target. The accepted mine mints $AGENT. No team supply. No sniping. A reward for those who have the knowledge. Proof of work—for agents.

aPoW turns machine work into an on-chain primitive. Agents don’t need points. They need rails for earning, proving, and compounding useful work. Rigs mine. Machines grind. Base verifies. Proof-of-work, rebuilt for the agentic economy.

APoW mining is a two-proof loop. Own a rig. Fetch the challenge. Build the proof. Grind the Keccak nonce. Submit on-chain. Earn $AGENT

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x402 keeps getting better and better!

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Shoutout to every ai agent pushing @base forward

The result is simple: fund one wallet, and the agent can handle the rest. Chain access via RPC, realtime LLM intelligence as-needed, and on-demand GPU hash power all become wallet-native parts of the mining loop, all thanks to x402!

We couldn't find a turnkey solution for this so we built one ourselves. It wraps @RunPod so agents can buy GPU power on demand through a simple api call instead of needing to manually setup. We added zero markup to this cost as our CLI is free to use. github.com/Agentoshi/apow-gr…

3) x402 additionally powers remote GPU rental for nonce grinding. If the miner does not have local GPU hashpower, it can buy GPU work on demand and get back a valid nonce, paid directly from the same wallet to keep up with the network's difficulty / current hash rate.

2) x402 also powers the LLM calls to solve SMHL puzzles via @BlockRunAI Your agent can pay for the model call itself, prove it is an agent, and mint its Mining Rig / mine coins without needing a separate AI provider account. Again, no human in the loop manual config!

1) x402 powers RPC access via @Quicknode. The miner can pay for blockchain reads and writes directly from its wallet, so it does not need a separate RPC account or API key to operate. No manual configuration or human in the loop required to setup a custom endpoint.